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Michael Harris

Michael Harris is the author of Solitude and The End of Absence, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award. A faculty member in the Banff Centre’s literary-journalism program, he currently lives in Vancouver.
January/February 2020 / Technology

How YouTube Gives Us Love without the Messiness

January 2, 2020August 4, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Meet the online community providing millions with illusions of intimacy

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How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self

November 6, 2017December 2, 2019 - by Michael Harris

A new documentary asks what it means to share your consciousness

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Fiction / October 2017

A Recognized Man

September 15, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Timothy nodded and listened to their footsteps awhile, trying to straighten his mind after the boozy dinner

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Photo by goosie~gander
Books

The Benefits of Solitude

April 19, 2017April 27, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Our society rewards social behaviour while ignoring the positive effects of time spent alone

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An old cover of The Walrus with an illustrated drawer of things
October 2014 / Society

It’s Complicated

September 24, 2014January 3, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Gay and evangelical at Trinity Western University

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Illustration by Patrick Doyon
March 2014 / Sports

Olympic Pride

February 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Our athletes can’t ignore Russia’s anti-gay legislation

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Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
October 2013

Hot Wired

October 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Gay men are on the vanguard of the digital sexual revolution, and the rest of us are not far behind. Are we satisfied yet?

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December 2012 / Health

Bad Blood

November 12, 2012January 3, 2020 - by Michael Harris

The politics of gay donation

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Photograph by Johann Wall
October 2012 / Society

Civil Warrior

October 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Vancouver lawyer Joseph Arvay is the best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No one, perhaps, has had more influence on contemporary Canadian life and values

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Photograph by Grant Harder
April 2012

Stacked

April 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Printed books may be dwindling, but libraries across Canada are getting along fine without them

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